Vital Signs
This term refers to a slower than expected heart rate/pulse and in adults is under 60 beats per minute.
What is bradycardia?
Subjective data like itching, nausea, and pain that is stated by the patient is known as this medical term.
What are symptoms?
Secondary care can also be termed as this and locations can include physician offices, urgent care, and hospitals.
What is acute care?
This term refers to the decreased blood flow to the tissues and can lead to hypoxia.
What is hypoperfusion?
This benign lesion of aging is common in elderly patients. The characteristics include raised, thick plaques and a crusty, "stuck on" appearance.
What is seborrheic keratosis?
This term refers to a faster than expected respiratory rate and in adults is more than 20 breaths per minute.
What is tachypnea?
This type of pain scale is a good choice for patients with dementia, confusion, or communication deficits.
What is the PAINAD scale?
This type of nursing intervention requires an order placed by a provider before they can be performed.
What is a dependent nursing intervention?
The acronym ABCs stands for this.
What are airway, breathing, and circulation?
These tiny, non-palpable, reddish-purple spots in the skin are very small and often pinpoint. It can indicate a medical emergency.
What is petechiae?
This four letter acronym relating to blood glucose means checking before meals and at bedtime.
What is ACHS?
In the acronym OLDCARTS, the A stands for these two factors.
What are aggravating and alleviating factors?
Your patient has contact precautions like vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) which means you need these two items before entering the room.
What are gown and gloves?
Oh no! Your patient is experiencing tachycardia and tachypnea. Your patient's body is doing this term which means getting back to their set point.
What is compensating?
This term refers to excessive sweating.
What is diaphoresis?
Your patient has a fever which is considered this value at OSUWMC.
What is 100.4
What is Erb's Point?
This condition is a drop in blood pressure with position change.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
This causes 1/3 of all hospital deaths and is a life-threatening condition where an infection triggers widespread inflammation and organ injury.
What is sepsis?
This term refers to the partial or total separation of previously approximated edges.
When listening to an infant's apical pulse, you must listen for this many seconds.
What is 60 seconds?
This type of health assessment is more problem-based. For example, your patient comes in with chest pain.
What is a focused health assessment?
When a patient is in restraints, they should have circulation/skin checks completed at a minimum this many hours.
What is 2 hours?
Oh no! Push this type of button as a reactive measure to manage cardiac or respiratory arrest.
What is the code blue button?
This term refers to the hardening and thickening of skin and tissue around a wound, caused by edema.
What is induration?